An up-to-date policy paper building on and extending previous WAVE & S4W work and priorities (including new trends) for information and advocacy.
The national policy “Women: Shaping our Future” (albeit never properly implemented) is due to expire 2010.
Without national policy guidelines for women and girls, especially those most at risk, there is no platform from which to advocate for and argue that any consideration should be directed towards girls and women in this major portfolio area, at national or state/territory levels.
Vocational training is a key central tool in federal and state government’s economic policies, strategies and economic stimulus packages to address the global economic downturn, and specifically to stimulate the economy; to link training with paid employment; to decrease unemployment of youth and other welfare recipients, as well as to ‘deepen’ Australia’s skills base.
